As discussed in this space and in the forums yesterday, in order to really be
able to test this new format it was time to just take the plunge at put it up
live. Feel free to offer feedback about the design in general, ways you feel it
could be tweaked, and as important as anything, please let me know if there are
any problems, as there are surely some browser/OS combos that it has not been
tested on. Depending on how all this goes, I may or may not be switching back
and forth between the old and new formats as we work through all this.

It's all UGO-ized and ugly. Plus it seems totally unnecessary. Nothing has changed content-wise, just now there's a big ugly blue ad bar space across the top. It looked a lot better when the ad space was the same color as the background. It made it stand out less.